Combined Cerenkov luminescence and nuclear imaging of radioiodine in the thyroid gland and thyroid cancer cells expressing sodium iodide symporter: Initial feasibility study

Endocrine Journal

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 575-583

  Jeong, Shin Young ^a   Hwang, Mi Hye ^a   Kim, Jung Eun ^a   Kang, Sungmin ^a   Park, Jeong Chan ^a   Yoo, Jeongsoo ^a   Ha, Jeoung Hee ^a   Lee, Sang Woo ^a   Ahn, Byeong Cheol ^a   Lee, Jaetae ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cerenkov radiation; NIS; Optical imaging; Radioiodine; Thyroid gland

Indexed keywords

IODINE 124; IODINE 131;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOMA CELL; CERENKOV LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOACTIVITY; RAT; SODIUM IODIDE SYMPORTER GENE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID GLAND; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUMINESCENCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PILOT PROJECTS; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; SYMPORTERS; THYROID GLAND; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 79960978316     PISSN: 09188959     EISSN: 13484540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1507/endocrj.K11E-051     Document Type: Article

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